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In a previous blog entry, “You can get there from here”, the new OMEGAMON XE on z/OS version 5.3.0 Near Term History support was introduced. The navigation paths between all supported workspaces were explained. The scenario used in this blog entry focuses on one of those areas of navigation. It explains how to determine the reason for an address space experiencing delays, and the address space or spaces causing them, during a specific historical timeframe. Why was my job delayed Jason? Jason, in systems programming, received a... [More]

In a previous blog entry, “You can get there from here”, the new OMEGAMON XE on z/OS version 5.3.0 Near Term History support was introduced. The navigation paths between all of the supported workspaces were explained. The scenario used in this blog entry focuses on one of those areas of navigation. It explains how to determine which address space, or address spaces, might have been impacting the performance of a workload running on an LPAR during a specific historical time-frame. Margrit we have a problem! Margrit, a systems... [More]

The IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS V5.1.1 Information Center is now available. You can access this information center at: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v61r1/topic/com.ibm.omegamon_xezos.doc/welcome/welcome_omxezos511.htm Check out the New in this release topic. You can also check out this short video about the new zAware Analysis workspace on YouTube: zAware Analysis work spac e: htt ps:/ /www .you tube .com /wat ch?v =nfm rznd lWW 0 The following publications were updated for this... [More]

'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in Tivoli R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your Tivoli monitoring software. Dear Rocky, My team is responsible for the installation and maintenance of all System z software for a large healthcare organization. We presently employ more than 10,000 workers and had revenue of $8 billion last year. Our enterprise consists of a 6 way Parallel Sysplex which heavily utilizes a V11... [More]

'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in Tivoli R&D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your Tivoli monitoring software. Dear Rocky I am a performance engineer for a large global health services company with over 32,00 employees, operates in 30 countries around the world, has 70 million customers, and $22 billion in revenue. We use several IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® products to monitor our 8 - way production Parallel Sysplex... [More]

You have installed OMEGAMON XE on z/OS version 510, and you are loving the new enhanced 3270 user interface, but you would like to see a list of all the workspaces available for the interface. You would also like to know how to know the most direct way to navigate from some of the top level workspaces to some of the detail workspaces. Well now that information is available in the new OMEGAMON XE on z/OS enhanced 3270 workspace and navigation guide. Take a look and let us know what you think!

'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in Tivoli R& D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your Tivoli monitoring software. Dear Rocky, My team monitors the Performance of a 6 way Parallel Sysplex running z/OS 1.12, 5 way CICSPlex 4.1, and a 3 way IMSPlex 1.11 for a large Financial Institution with $25 billion in revenue, $153 billion in total assets, and approximately 40,000 employees. We rely on several IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON®... [More]

'Dear Rocky' answers your System z monitoring and performance tuning questions. Rocky McMahan, a Senior Software Performance Engineer in Tivoli R& D, offers valuable tips to help you get more out of your Tivoli monitoring software. Dear Rocky, I am a Performance Engineer for a Health Insurance provider that has $15 billion in revenue, $100 billion in total assets, and employs approximately 65,000 people. Our core business application runs in a 4-way Parallel Sysplex utilizing Customer Information Control System (CICS), Information... [More]

Dear Rocky, I work as a Performance Engineer for a leading non profit Health Care system that employs more than 55,000 employees and is a $10 billion integrated global health enterprise comprised of more than 20 hospitals and clinical locations. We run a 6 way Parallel Sysplex which heavily utilizes a V11 IMSPlex with Shared Queues and processes approximately 2 million Fast Path and Full Function transactions per day. Several IBM® Tivoli® OMEGAMON® products are used to monitor our enterprise, however, the success of our business applications is... [More]

Get the details on what OMEGAMON XE customers are talking about; the
new PARMLIB method of OMEGAMON configuration Some early users have voiced there enthusiastic approval of this configuration method available for OMEGAMON XE and related products: “It’s more like the methods I’m used to and far easier than before.” “This is more intuitive and I was able to quickly locate, update, and
implement a few parameters without rebuilding my production environment.” The PARMLIB configuration method is particularly suitable for the following types of... [More]

As a software and information developer, interacting with your support team on a regular basis is a viable way to head off customer problems early on and provide real time solutions that signifies team work. The support level personnel within a company is designed to incorporate a solid working knowledge of the software product they support coupled with an innate skill base that fosters problem solving and the handling of complex customer issues in a timely manner. It's important, however, to let customers know how they can save time and... [More]

The original KCP0219: INTERVAL VALUE IS INVALID, MUST SPECIFY 1 message for V4.2.0 of OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS has been changed to satisfy both values for the WLM collection interval in the OC START ID=WLM command. This is the updated/changed message: KCP0219E THE INTERVAL VALUE IS INVALID, MUST SPECIFY 1 OR TEP. Explanation: The INTERVAL value coded on the OC START ID=WLM command is incorrect. System action: The workload analysis subtask stops working . User response: Enter the command with a valid value. The valid values are 1 or TEP.... [More]